Berlin: East/West division as seen at night from the International Space Station
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Lenticular clouds over Mount Fuji, Japan. These are stationary lens-shaped clouds that form at high altitudes, usually perpendicular to the direction of the wind.
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The Grand Tour of Asia: India | The marble surrounding the Taj Mahal, from local quarries, doesn’t stain—nearly 400 years after the structure was built, it is still spectacularly vivid.
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Panoramic Eruption
Volcanic eruptions, while seemingly rare, are actually quite common. There’s around 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth and about 50 of those will erupt in a given year. But rarely will two erupt close to each other. Even rarer is three erupting in proximity. Four? That’s just nuts!
But that’s what is currently happening on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, along the northwest edge of the Ring of Fire. This particular string of of eruptions around Tolbachik resulted in huge rivers of lava pouring from fissures in the Earth, but very little ash and debris released into the sky. This allowed an aerial panorama team to helicopter around the bubbling inferno without dying a fiery death.
They put together this amazing interactive volcano panorama that lets you fly above the action from the comfort of your own home, which is much safer than trudging through Siberian ice in order to stand next to exploding magma.
Enjoy that (I did), and then check out this photo tour of the year in volcanic activity from The Atlantic.
Breathe by Elizabeth Gadd
Vancouver-based photographer Elizabeth manages to capture the essence of this transcendent experience in her series known as Breathe.
Treehouse Community
Finca Bellavista (FBV) is a sustainable treehouse community situated on 600 acres of land in the mountainous South Pacific coastal region of Costa Rica. FBV is the brainchild of Mateo and Erica Hogan, a married couple from Colorado who fell in love with Costa Rica.
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